Financial Crime Product Compliance & Risk Manager - South-East Asia

Location: Global

Team: General

About the Role

Wise is a global technology company on a mission to build the best way to move and manage the world’s money with min fees, max ease, and full speed. We’re seeking a Financial Crime Product Compliance & Risk Manager for South-East Asia to join our growing Product Compliance & Risk team in APAC. In this hands-on, first-line role embedded in the APAC Product Squad, you’ll launch new products, grow our presence, and protect licenses by deeply understanding FinCrime requirements and regulators’ expectations, collaborating closely with FinCrime and Product teams to ensure compliant, customer-oriented solutions. You’ll conduct FinCrime risk assessments for new products, enable risk-based approaches, interpret regulations to prevent breaches, escalate risks enterprise-wide, and represent Wise externally. With a salary of SGD 9,500 - 12,500 per month + RSUs, this is a unique opportunity to impact Wise’s mission, save millions money, and build best-in-class products in a diverse, inclusive environment. Based in Singapore with travel, ideal for FinCrime experts passionate about fintech innovation.

Key Responsibilities

• Deeply understand regulatory FinCrime needs, translate into solutions, and work with Product Teams to build compliant new products and services in a customer-oriented way
• Perform FinCrime risk assessments of new products and services, ensuring related controls are implemented consistently prior to launch
• Enable product teams to adopt a risk-based approach in developing products, processes, and controls
• Support Product and other teams on interpreting regulatory FinCrime requirements, and improve processes and product to avoid regulatory breaches or incidents
• Identify and align on main FinCrime issues and risks in South-East Asia with second line Compliance and Risk teams, present clearly to wider teams, and define solutions
• Escalate breaches and FinCrime risks to Compliance Oversight to maintain enterprise-wide view of Wise’s FinCrime risk environment
• Identify related risk typologies and ensure specialist teams provide input into the product lifecycle
• Assist Product Teams in developing and maintaining track of relevant risks across their product, including mitigation plans, action owners, and timelines
• Represent Wise in external meetings, articulating FinCrime framework effectively while ensuring compliance and representing customer-oriented culture

Required Qualifications

• Expert in financial crime compliance, with background in Financial Crime Regulation in one or more countries in South-East Asia
• Previous hands-on experience in FinTech or financial regulation role (e.g. consultancy, Compliance)
• Ability to analyse and interpret complex regulatory frameworks and apply them effectively
• Problem solving attitude, with ability to use regulation together with data to drive business decisions
• Strong executor that drives and delivers cross-functional projects from inception to completion, timely and with attention to details
• Fluency in English
• Legally authorised to work in Singapore
• Willingness to travel, as Wise offices are located across different countries

Preferred Qualifications

• True team player with collaborative spirit and ability to work effectively with different stakeholders (e.g. Product and Compliance)
• Passionate to help solve problems and build best-in-class products for customers
• Ability to effectively and clearly communicate and provide practical, actionable, and value-added recommendations
• Fluency in other languages in South-East Asia

Required Skills

• Financial crime compliance expertise
• Regulatory interpretation and application
• Risk assessment and management
• Cross-functional project delivery
• Problem-solving with data and regulation
• Stakeholder collaboration
• Clear communication and presentation
• Customer-oriented product development
• Travel readiness
• English fluency

Benefits

• RSUs (stock options)
• Flexible working
• Parental leave
• Learning budget
• Paid sabbatical after 4 years
• Health insurance
• Company retreat
• Wise card

Wise is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse workforce.